Vapor-bath apparatus.



No. 739,612. PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903. L MOHR. VAPOR BATH APPARATUS.

Arrmou'xon mum JAN. e, 1903.

no menu Patented September 22, 190? PATENT OFFICE.

' LOUIS MOI-IR, or PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

VAPOR-BATH APPARATUS.

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,612, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed January 8, 1903. Serial No. 138,215. (Nomodel-E To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS MOHR, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vapor-Bath Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

, This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in vapor-bath apparatus, and has for its object the provision of novel means for the administering of medicinal vapors to a patient in the bath-room or sweating-compartment.

Briefly described, the invention comprises, in connection with the bath-room or series of bath-rooms or sweating-compartments, vapor apparatus with means for conveying the vapors from the apparatus to any one or more of the bath-rooms or sweating-compartments 5 and to this end the invention resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and specificallypointed out.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawing,

which shows a diagrammatical view of the general construction and arrangement of the device. In this drawing I have illustrated at 1 a series of bath-roomsor sweating-compartments in which the patients are received for the administration of the vapors. Arranged at a suitable distance from these bathrooms or sweating-compartments is a vaporadministering apparatus embodying, substantially, a mixing shell or tank 2,having a steam-inlet pipe 3 connected thereto and provided with a steam-outlet pipe 4, which may be conducted to any suitable point. tank is merely a receptacle for the steam and medicated vapor wherein the same are mixed by diffusion, and the steam-outlet means are for use in cleaning the'apparatus after the cutting ofi of the medicated vapors. In the illustration of the invention I have shown the arrangement of two series of bath-rooms and the steam to the different apparatuses being controlled by meansfof the valve 6. The medicinal vapors which are to be administered to the patient are received in the receptacle or reservoir 7 through the pipe 8, leading from the tank or other receptacle (not shown) containing the chemicals or medicines to the reservoir. From this reservoir the medicines or chemicals are forced through pipes 9 and 10 into the mixingtanks 2 as these vapors are introduced into the receptacle 7 and held therein under pressure; so that when the valves thereouare opened these vapors. are injected into the or condensation-tank 12, which is merely a steam-trap and provided with ordinary means for drawing off the water, and from this sepaseveral bath-rooms or compartments and each branch being controlled by a separate valve 16. The temperature of the bath-rooms or compartments is determined by means of the several thermostatic indicators 1'7, which are preferably located at a suitable point where the operator can conveniently observe the same, and in practice I preferably arrange these at a point adjacent to the gallery 18, on which the operator may stand for operating the valve 6 to permit steam to pass to either of the vapor-tanks 2.

The construction of the operating means for the thermostatic indicators may be of any desired constructionas, for instance, arranging thermostats in the several bath-rooms or compartments with which the thermostatic indicators'or temperature -'indicating mediums are operativelyconnected. These therwith thermostats of the ordinary construction, which are placed at anyconvenient pointwithin the rooms. lVhen the temperature comes to the desired point, the head fixed upon these thermostats establishes equal connection between them and the thermostatic indicators, and by observing the pointer upon the same the attendant knows when to shut off valve 16 mostatic indicators are connected by wires 20 to prevent the admission of further vapor into the room.

In operating, the patient is placed in one of the bath-rooms or compartments 1 and the medicines or chemicals drawn into the reservoir 7 and compressed until the valve of the reservoir indicates the desired pressure, whereupon they are forced through pipe 9 into shell or tank 2, where, commingling with the the steam in the shell or tank, they are carried in the form of vapor into the separator or condenser 12, where any condensation is collected, While the vapor is carried from thence through pipe 4 to the bath-room or sweating-compartment. By the arrangement of the valves any one or more of the bathrooms or sweating-compartments may be em ployed at the same time.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A vapor bath apparatus of the character described comprising bath-rooms, a reservoirtank for medicinal vapors, a series of mixingshells connected with said reservoir, valves controlling the admission of the medicated vapors of said shells, means for conducting steam to said shells, a valve controlling the inlet of steam mounted in said means, valves for individually controlling admission of steam to mixing-shells, a separator connected with each of said shells for receiving water of condensation, means connecting said separators with the bath-rooms, and means connected with said bath-rooms for operating temperature-indicating means through the said rooms, whereby the temperature in the rooms may be observed and the valves controlling the admission of vapor or steam operated in accordance therewith to regulate the temperatures within the bath-rooms, substantially as described. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

1 I LOUIS MOI-IR.

lVitnesses:

H. C. EVERT, A. M. WILSON. 

